Improvement in soldering apparatus



G.H. PERKINS.

Soldering-Apparatus. No 165362- PatentedJuly6,l875.

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NJETERs, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D c.

GEORGE H. PERKINS, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PE

HIMSELF AND JOSEPH LE GOMTE, on NEW YORK oITY, AND

EEEINING COMPANY, on PHILADELPHIA, PENNsYLvANIA.

ATLANTIC IMPROVEMENT IN SOLDERING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,362, dated July 6,1875;

application filed March 24, 1875.

CASE S.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. PERKINS, ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Apparatus for FacilitatingtheSolderin g of the Caps of Cans, of which the following is aspecification Y The object of my invention is to facilitate theoperation of soldering screw-nozzles to oilcans, and this object Iattain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l. is aperspective view of the apparatus which I employ for the purpose, andFigs. 2 and 3 transverse sections, showing the movable parts of theapparatus in different positions.

A and A are two uprights or standards, forming part of a fixed frame;and to this standard is hinged, by pins a, a long trough, B, forcontaining the liquid which serves as a flux in applying the solder,this trough being attached to a long box, 1), to each end of which oneof the said pins a is attached, the box serving as a receptacle for aweight or weights, in the present instance consisting of a piece ofrailroadmail, b, which has a tendency to depress the trough. At or nearone end of the box is an arm, E, of such a weight that when in theposition shown in Fig. 2 it will tend to counterbalance'and retain thebox, trough, and their attachments in the position shown in Fig. 2, themovement of this arm, and consequently of the trough, being restrictedin one direction by a shoulder, cl, on a fixed bar, G, and the otherdirection by a shoulder, e, on the same bar. 0n the under side of thebox D, and projecting from the front of the same, are a number ofelastic fingers, w, the bent end of each of which is arranged to bear ona nozzle, m, placed in its proper position on an oil-can, P, there beingin front of the apparatus as many of these cans placed in a row as thereare elastic fingers l The cans may be placed on a suitable removableplatform, or, by preference, on one side of a turn-table, which it hasnot been deemed necessary to illustrate in the drawing, as it formsthe'subject of another application for a patent.

The nozzles having been adjusted in their proper positions on the cans,the fingers, which have been elevated with the trough and box duringthis adjustment are now depressed, so that the bent end of each fingerwill bear upon one nozzle with a firmness depending upon the Weight inthe box D.

It should be understood that the shoulder e, onthe fixed bar G, does notinterfere with the exerting of a proper pressure by the fingers on thenozzles, for it 1s only when the oil cans and nozzles are absent thatthe arm E is in contact with the said shoulder.

Heretofore it has been the practice, in soldering nozzles to oil-cans,for an operator to hold down the nozzle with one hand, while he appliesthe soldering iron and solder with the other, a somewhat tediousoperation, for he mustcontinue to press down the nozzle until the solderis set.

The above-described apparatus relieves the operator from the duty ofholding down the nozzle, so that a strip of solder, which he holds inone hand, and which he dips from time to time into the flux in thetrough, and the soldering-iron in the other, he can pass from can to canand apply the solder, there being no delay in holding down the nozzlewhile the solder sets, for this duty is performed by the fingers 00.

After the nozzles have been soldered to one row of cans, the trough andits fingers are tilted upward by means of a handle, a, and is retainedby the heavy arm E in this tilted position until the cans, with solderednozzles, have been removed, and another row of cans is placed in aproper position for being operated on in the manner described.

The trough B may be pivoted directly to the frame, but I prefer theintervention of a box for receiving such weights as the desired pressureon the nozzles may su gest.

It is not esssential that the trough B should PATENT QFFIOEI NNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR T01 form a part of the pivoted box or frame, for the flux maybe contained in any other conveniently-situated vessel; but I prefer toattach it to the pivoted box for obvious reasons.

The object of making the fingers an elastic is to insure the applicationto the nozzle of each can of an independent yielding pressure.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the pivoted. and weightedbox or frame with the elastic fingers m.

2. The pivoted and Weighted box or frame and its elastic fingers, incombination with the weighted arm E.

3. The combination of the pivoted box or frame and its fingers, and armE, with the stops d and e.

in testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' GEORGE E. PERKINS. Witnesses:

' HARRY SMITH,

HUBEBT HowsoN.

